Hi, I'm Kent C. Dodds. I help people make the world better through quality software.

I've been participating in the creation of open source software since 2012. My first pull request was to fix a typo I saw in a comment of the Java Playframework. It wasn't much, but being… Read →

You're a developer and you want to avoid shipping a broken login experience, so you're writing some tests to make sure you don't. Let's get a quick look at an example of such a form : Now… Read →

I remember when I started learning about threads in Java. My college professor pulled up iTunes, hit play on a song and said: "if it weren't for threads, I wouldn't be able to click any of… Read →

In my Learn React Hooks workshop material, we have an exercise where we build a tic-tac-toe game using React's useState hook (based on the official React tutorial). Here's the finished… Read →

One of the leading causes to slow React applications is global state, especially the rapidly changing variety. Allow me to illustrate my point with a super contrived example, then I'll give… Read →